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Three Daughters, Three Journeys : Quest for Cancer Cure by Ananda M. Chakrabarty; Jill Charles; Indrani Mondal; Ranjita Chattopadhyay is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Three Daughters, Three Journeys : Quest for Cancer Cure about?
Cancer threatens the lives of people around the world. Women, in particular, are at risk of certain cancers with a genetic cause. Certain mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes put mothers and daughters at risk of breast and ovarian cancers. Unlike many cancers that most commonly occur after age 60, these inheritable cancers threaten women’s lives, health and fertility even when they are young, before most would even begin to go for annual mammogram screenings to check for breast cancer. __Three Daughters, Three Journeys__ takes on the biggest health issue of our time from a global perspective with three heroines fighting for their lives against cancer. Marzena, a Polish oncology nurse, has spent her life treating child patients with cancer. Then, she confronts it in her own family and her own body. Kamola, a rural Indian girl, knows she has symptoms of the same disease that took her mother, but feels afraid to discuss it with her father and brothers, knowing her family cannot afford medical treatment. Kamola confides in Dr Rini Mishra, a doctor testing a new treatment called Neelazin, using a bacterial anticancer protein in food, to destroy cancer cells. Selena, a wealthy woman of
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Ananda M. Chakrabarty; Jill Charles; Indrani Mondal; Ranjita Chattopadhyay
- Publisher
- Jenny Stanford Publishing
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789814745901
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Medical, Literary Fiction
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